What Magnificence Surrounds Us
“To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.”
–William Blake, in “Auguries of Innocence”
And this, from the final pages of Eve.
Belief is not always easy.
It is equal parts doubt and astonishment and gratitude and confusion.
And then you see how deeply colored the sky is, how the grass is so sharply fragrant, how the fields are a dazzling gold, and you have to step back and breathe in this wild fabulous world. We live in the space of abundant questions and inadequate answers. How else can we live?
Open your heart, and all the uncertainty fills it—the dimpled earth, the generous sky, the shaking flowers—all of it crowding into your grateful heart. Don’t you see?
Everything ordinary is extraordinary and points to one luminous thing, to a love that has already given its response. You have only to receive it.
